Roadblogging: Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh
Originally uploaded by bryenz.

Not the greatest picture ever.. but these days the airport people aren't real keen on people taking pictures inside the airport. They think you might be a terrorist or something.

As of last fall, I have switched careers.. sort of. I used to have a back-office operations gig, where they sit you in front of a computer and make you actually produce things. In my case, I had people working for me that actually had to produce things.. but the same concept applies. Management generally doesn't let the back-office monkeys out of the back-office to do anything of interest.

Now I have one of those jobs where I don't actually "produce" anything, but I'm exponentially busier than I was before.. how does that work, again? A big part of the job involves travel to visit clients, conduct training seminars, that kind of thing. This travel takes me to glamorous places such as:

• Stamford, CT (I did not visit the Dunder-Mifflin office, as it had closed by then)
• Jersey City, NJ (please don't be jealous)
• Pittsburgh, PA

..and others. As I travel this wonderful country -- mostly one city in one day, out and back on the same day -- I'll try to take a picture or two of something interesting and share it with everyone. Sadly, all I saw of Pittsburgh was the inside of the airport, the expressway from the airport to downtown (nice traffic, gang; what urban planning genius said that you can only have one two-lane expressway into downtown from the west side of town? ..and hey, what a great idea, let's run it through the side of a mountain?) and an office building/operations center.

Plus it rained. So we had that going for us, which was not really nice.

Next week brings Flint, MI. When I signed up for this, they said, "Hey, you'll go to New York sometimes, California, Seattle, that kind of place." Instead, I get Flint and Troy, MI.

No disrespect intended to Flint or Troy, but c'mon.. it's not New York.